Days later he lies
beyond the pale.
Forever stilled
beneath the earth,
cold to touch.

As is her soul.

I’m hosting dVerse today, the virtual pub for poets. Prompt today is to somehow involve the idea of “temperature” within your poem – in any of its diverse meanings or uses. The word itself does not need to be in the poem….but we must be able to tell how “temperature” is related to your poem. IE — to take one’s temperature, red-hot with anger; temperature of a nation, being in hot water, passion, etc. Prompt goes live at 3 PM Boston time. Come join us!And apologies to my readers today….I’ve gone over to the dark side with this post. Photo from Pixabay.com

Yes I definitely went over to the dark side on this one. Such a reverse from my freckles ditty! Sometimes I don’t know where the words come from!!! Do hope to see you on the trail today. Would love to see what you do with the idea of temperatures 🙂

I like the way you developed the shift from simmering to cold, Lill, especially the repetition of ‘simmering, the play on daze/days, and the fingers drumming before the situation boiled over. Where did you find that wonderful illustration?

Thanks, Sarah. It’s been fun to see all the different takes on the prompt…and quite a few carry through a change in termperatures from the beginning of the poem to the end. I’ve really enjoyed reading them. Glad you like this one!

Thank you!
And I really appreciated your post to the prompt. Sadly, I could not fiture out how to respond to it on your site, other than to create an account that I felt insecure doing.
Might I also ask that you add a dVerse tag to your post….or statement that indicates the ” prompt is from dVerse at http://dversepoets.com, the virtual pub for poets. This will bring more folks to our site and thus more readers to your posts too. Hope to see you often at dVerse!

‘Simmering’ is the underlying feeling behind crime, though the word often used is ‘cold-blooded’. What makes a person reach that stage remains inconclusive – else we could have worked on crime prevention rather than punishment.